{"id":7089,"date":"2012-09-03T13:22:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/?p=7089"},"modified":"2012-09-03T13:22:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T20:22:49","slug":"the-internet-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/2012\/09\/03\/the-internet-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet of Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Companies like IBM are building \u201cSmart Cities\u201d based on distributed sensors in roads, pipe, etc, providing feedback to control systems. \u00a0This is part of a general emerging market called the\u00a0<strong>Internet of Things<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>IoT<\/strong>) where heretofore inanimate, mute objects are becoming part of an intelligent, active, behind-the-scenes conversation. \u00a0So what about \u201cSmart Schools\u201d, where the all of the tools, resources, furniture and infrastructure of a school get involved in the learning conversation?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opportunity Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>While relatively few physical objects might seem like immediate candidates to be given a useful\u00a0<strong>IoT<\/strong>\u00a0voice, currently wired systems including learning software and hardware are waiting to be heard. \u00a0Enabling and collecting those voices, and organizing the conversation, presents a set of opportunities in classroom management, school management, security, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prediction Source(s)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/it\/page.jsp?id=1826214\"><strong>Gartner \u2013 The Internet of Things<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies like IBM are building \u201cSmart Cities\u201d based on distributed sensors in roads, pipe, etc, providing feedback to control systems. \u00a0This is part of a general emerging market called the\u00a0Internet of Things\u00a0(IoT) where heretofore inanimate, mute objects are becoming part of an intelligent, active, behind-the-scenes conversation. \u00a0So what about \u201cSmart Schools\u201d, where the all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325967],"tags":[14967,493580,4963],"class_list":["post-7089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-markets-poll","tag-emerging-markets","tag-iot","tag-poll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7090,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7089\/revisions\/7090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}